Climate change means bigger storms and means more heat waves. WE are near a week into our latest heat wave with temps regularly topping 100 f.
And the danger comes when we get “dry” thunderstorms. That is a lot of lightning and little rain. And we got that a few days ago! All night long and into the morning. Little rain but a lot of lightning. And that has touched off many fires in California.
We got a fire near Mt. Diablo near where I live. Got fires up in the Sonoma/Napa area, in San Jose even, in Santa Cruz area (not to mention LA area) in the carmel area as well. The lightning has touched off a lot of fires big and small and fire fighters are out fighting them. One helicopter dropping water has crashed and killed the pilot.
I went to reno 17th to 18th and we drove by areas with a lot of smoke and even in the Reno area they are now battling one huge fire and one smaller one.
And this morning the smoke (probably from Napa/Sonoma areas ) have arrived and we can smell it at home.
WE can already see a lot of smoke all over the bay area. The usual sunny blue skies have been replaced by cloud that is not cloud but instead smoke.
When you open the windows and smell smoke you need to keep your A/C on (the heat) and all doors and windows closed.
I bought a humidifier a couple of years ago in the fires of 2017 and 2018 that works real well. Because it takes the air and passes it onto a water based filter which does a good job of filtering smoke.
IN the last fires in 2018 I was coughing and my wife was coughing and then my cat whopper was coughing because of the 24 hour smoke.
It was really bad ! And we finally took a three day respite to monterey to smell clean air.
But currently wildfires in Carmel near Monterey means Monterey is not an escape option. And fires near Reno means Reno and Lake Tahoe are not a smoke escape option either!
I was so jealous of my coworker in 2018 who had just taken his two weeks off a day or two prior to our big fires and went to visit friends in Arizona and thus escaped the worst smoke.
It is NOT good at all if you are living in smoke. It must be like smoking ten packs of cigs a day.
If you could, where would you want to move to?
Personally, you should get the heck out of that state.
It’s on a one-way path to destruction (taxes, unaffordable housing, etc.).
Florida is Extremely good.
All kinds of places you can think of.
The state government will never consider raising taxes, given that residents (many of them) are on fixed income (retirement).
You really should consider getting out, no matter who wins this election, California is imploding and taxes will only get worse.
